Hellraisers Journal: NY Socialists Plan Mass Meeting for Moyer & Haywood; Mother Jones to Speak
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday March 13, 1906
From The New York Times: Socialists Rally Behind Moyer and Haywood
From the Times of March 12th:
SAYS SOCIALISTS MUST ARM.
----------Ex-Mayor of Haverhill Wants Them to
Fight to Save Moyer and Haywood.
A appeal was made at yesterday's meeting of the Central Federated Union By John C. Chase, Former Socialist Mayor of Haverhill, Mass., for co-operation with the Socialists in protesting against the punishment of President Moyer, Secretary Haywood, and other officers of the Western Federation of Miners, who were arrested in connection with a number of murders, including the assassination of ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho. These men are now in jail in Boise City. Capitalists and corporations were denounced impartially by Chase. He said that the unions at a meeting last Thursday decided on a perpetual agitation on behalf of the imprisoned men and asked to attend the first conference to push along the agitation which will begin in the Grand Central Palace to-morrow. Referring to Moyer and Haywood, he said:
If these two men are hanged, and if any man in this body, or any other body of the kind, is not then willing to shoulder a gun and fight for his class, he is a coward.
Shouts of applause arose from the Socialists and the request was granted. It was harder to get delegates to attend the conference. After several of them had declined, Delegate Abrahams of the Franklin Association of Pressmen's Helpers and delegate Modest of Cigarmakers' Union No. 90, both Socialists, said they would go.
-----[Photograph added.]
From today's New York Times:
AID ACCUSED DYNAMITERS.
-----Socialist and Labor Bodies to Hold
Meeting of Protest.Under the auspices of the Central Federated Union, Socialist Party, and about 120 other labor organizations, a "protest mass meeting" against the alleged extradition, imprisonment, and "intended murder" of Messrs. Moyer, Haywood, and other officers of the Western Federation of Miners by the Ohio [Idaho] and Colorado authorities will be held at the Grand Central Palace at 8 o'clock this evening. The speakers will be Ben Hanford, author of "Labor War in Colorado"; Morris Hilquitt [Hillquit], "Mother" Jones, Sol Diledman, Abram [Abraham] Cahan, editor of [Jewish Daily] Forward; Meyer London, Alexander Jonas, and John C. Chase, ex-Mayor of Haverhill, Mass.
-----[Photograph added.]
From the Oakland Tribune of March 12, 1906:
[Photographs added.]
SOURCES
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Mar 12, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20590956/
-Mar 13, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20591419/
Oakland Tribune
(Oakland, California)
-Mar 12, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/76936840/
IMAGES
Socialist Party of America Button
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/spa/socialistparty.html
UMWJ, Feb 10, 1916, Cover, Mother Jones, TVP, Pres White
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=NQpQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...
Moyer Haywood Pettibone, Oakland Trib, Headline, Mar 12, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/76936840/
Haywood Moyer Pettibone, Oakland Tib, Habeas Corpus, Mar 12, 1906
Haywood Darrow Collection
Moyer Darrow Collection
https://www.newspapers.com/image/76936840/
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1384
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1385
See also:
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma Florence Langdon
Denver, 1904-05
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon00.html
Appendix, April 1908
(Coverage of Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case)
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon29.html#dedication
The Darrow Collection, Haywood Trial
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/trials.php?tid=3
Labor War in Colorado (1904) by Ben Hanford
https://archive.org/details/laborwarincolora00hanfrich
Morris Hillquit
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAhillquit.htm
Abraham Cahan
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAcahan.htm
Meyer London
http://spartacus-educational.com/Meyer_London.htm
"How I Became a Socialist" by Alexander Jonas
pdf: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1912/0300-jonas-howib...
"What Socialists Can do in Office" by John C. Chase
pdf: http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1910/0326-chase-...
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Comments
Powerful!!! Listening to a new "Which Side Are you On" Wow.
Now to read the article
Thanks for this, JaeRae.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
you are most welcome, Gerrit
And plz keep your great posts coming also.
When I discovered this version of Which Side Are You On, I was completely blown away.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Trying to imagine how the media would portray
this nowadays. Willing to bet it would consist of small page 6 under the fold stories.
"Illegal Miners Meeting Broken Up."
"Socialist Terrorists Threaten Violence"
Sigh. Sorry, love your work, and so happy to see it. Normally American History bores the crap out of me, when there's so many other fascinating eras, but I'm slowly coming around here.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
thx DMW. The ruling class got more than it bargained for when
they kidnapped Moyer and Haywood. There were many calls to arms just like this one and not all from Socialists either.
The United Mine Workers stood right up and donated $5000 dollars, from one of its districts, with just a few days, before there was even a defense fund set up. And, at that time the UMWA and Western Federation of Miners were rival unions. $5000 was an enormous amount of money in those days.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Thanks JayRaye
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams